LITTLE ALLELUIAS Collected Poetry and Prose

Golden Voice narrator Kimberly Farr reflects the shimmering light of Mary Oliver's poetry and amplifies the meaning in her appealing prose. Farr simply gets Oliver's nuance and grace and sound; as narrator, she has a gift for pace and knows just how to intensify and heighten the language. This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau. She lived a solitary life by the sea on Cape Cod. And the images of dolphins surrounding her and whales blowing mist and being bitten by a goose symbolize both the experiential and imaginative cast of her work. Her essays on Emerson and Hawthorne are writerly treats. This audiobook is a gift to the listener. A.D.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]